Comité d'Action pour les Etats Unis d'Europe Collection

Period 1955-1975
Total size   0.7 m.
Consultation Not restricted

History

Also known as Comité Monnet; founded in 1955 in Paris as a pressure group to further international cooperation within Europe; presided by its founder, the Frenchman Jean Monnet; members were representatives of the larger political parties and non-communist trade unions in the member countries of the European Economic Community; its main interests were the Euratom treaty, the future of Europe as an independent nuclear power and the entry of Great Britain in the community; dissolved in May 1975.

Content

Collection of stencilled and printed documents: minutes of the meetings of the Comité; statements and resolutions; financial reports; texts of interviews and press conferences by Jean Monnet; reports on the entry of Great Britain, the monetary and economic union and other subjects; press clippings.

Bewerking

Inventory by J.R. van der Leeuw in 1982